Improvement in combined baby-tenders and cribs



A. BlAlRD.

Combined Baby-Tender and Crib.

N 163,625, Patented May 25,1875.

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- and to the great relief of mothers;

U NITED STATES ARIETTE BAIRD, OF RIVERHEAD, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED BABY-TENDERS AND CRIBS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 163,625, dated May 25, 1875 application filed March 29, 1875.

To all whom at may concern:

Be it known that I, Mrs. ARIETTE BAIRD, of Riverhead, Suffolk county, New York, have invented anew and Improved Combined Baby- Tender and Crib, of which the following is a specification Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my improved baby-tender and crib combined; and Figs. 2 and 3 are vertical transverse sections of the same, showingit arranged respectively as tender and crib.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention relates to a combined babytender and crib, which may be used as required for either purpose, so as to form a convenient device for guarding the child playing therein without danger of accident or hurt,

The device may readily be taken to pieces for convenient transportation, and be arranged with a mosquito-net or awning for in and out door use. My invention consists of a frame work in the nature of a crib, supported detachably on corner-posts, and provided with a bottom carpet, applied to the lower part of the frame, and with a stretching part attached at suitable height above the carpet, to be alternately used as a tender or crib.

In the drawing, A represents the cornerposts of my improved tender and crib, to which the longitudinal and lateral connecting side and end boards B are secured and locked in any suitable but detachable manner, for the purpose of admitting the ready detaching and connecting of the parts for transporting the crib, strapped to a trunk or otherwise, from place to place. The posts A are preferably placed on casters for more readily moving the crib. A carpet or rug, 0, Fig. 2, is ap plied by means of suspension-rings a to but tons or hooks b, or in any other manner, to the bottom edge of the connecting-board B, the device forming in this manner a tender for guarding and protecting the child placed therein, who retains, by its standing on the carpet, the tender in position, and is amused by toys, 850., hung from perforations of the upper connecting-boards. The child may be left entirely to itself in the tender, so that it allows the mother to attend to other duties without being continually annoyed and hindered by the child. A canvas or other sheet, D, of suitable strength is stretched by means of rings and buttons, or otherwise, to the upper end of the lower connecting-boards, and transforms the tender in this manner into a crib, the mattress and bedding being placed thereon. 'An awning, mosquito-net, or other protecting attachment may be supported by rods set into the corner-posts, and thereby the tender or crib may be allowed to stand outside the house on the veranda or in the garden, as required.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The frame composed of the boards B and posts A, the side-boards having fastening devices along their upper and lower edges, as shown and described, whereby a stretcher, D, or floor-covering, 0, may be attached, according as the frame is to be converted into a crib or baby-tender, as set forth.

' ARIETTE BAlRD,

Witnesses:

PAUL GoErEL, T. B. MOSHER. 

